Payment optimisation
Maximise approvals. Minimise declines.
Help increase revenue and reduce churn with optimised processing capabilities.

Drive auth rates and help grow your bottom line
Keep customer data current
Securely store your customer card credentials and leverage specialized tools to keep them updated and help prevent declines.
Accept more orders
Help drive authorisation rates and increase revenue with solutions designed to minimise latency, reduce friction at checkout, and decrease cart abandonment.
Minimise declines
Increase payment acceptance by harnessing machine learning to intelligently retry transactions and boost recovery rates.
No additional integration needed
Payment optimisation is built into PayPal Enterprise Payments, so your transactions will automatically be optimised to maximise approvals.
Optimisation driven by our integrated processing engine
Our adaptive processing strategies, fresh vault, and global network all work together to help you increase authorisation rates.
PayPal’s global network
Trillions of transaction data points
Expansive two-sided network
Global banking relationships
Direct links to card networks
Vaulting
Network Tokenisation
Batch Account Updater
Real time Account Updater
Adaptive processing strategies
Real time decisioning and retries
Robust risk filters
Merchant advisory
Ongoing monitoring and alerts
Drive conversion with end-to-end payments optimisation
Account Updater
Securely store and keep your customer card credentials up to date to help boost approvals and avoid declines due to stolen, expired, or lost cards.
Network Tokenisation
Use network tokens to reduce latency, improve auth rates and keep data fresh with dynamic updates in real-time.
3D Secure
3D Secure is built in and provides an extra authentication layer for online purchases, shifts liability for eligible chargebacks to issuers, and meets SCA requirements in applicable markets.
Smart Retries
Intelligently retry declines based on customer behavior, transaction history, and payment processing performance data to help recover transactions and minimize checkout friction.
Smart Routing
Smart Routing uses machine learning to predict the optimal processing path for primary and retry transactions, in order to help improve auth rates and reduce transaction expense.
Direct Connect
By establishing additional redundancy with more processor options, improve long-term latency, boost authorisation rates, and mitigate the impact of timeouts, outages, and transaction failures.
PayPal + WeSki
How PayPal's payment optimisation helped WeSki lift approval rates
“Without a robust solution like PayPal Braintree, our growth would be hindered, as it enables us to scale as desired.”
— David Benzmira, COO, WeSki
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